Geoffrey Chaucer
1340?-1400
English poet and civil servant who wrote the literary classic The Canterbury Tales, among other works, and held numerous government posts during the reigns of Edward III, R...
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The English author and courtier Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1345-1400) was one of the greatest poets of the late Middle Ages and has often been called the father of English poetry. His best-known works are ...
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Perhaps the modern reader must first realize what a curious phenomenon it is that Geoffrey Chaucer became the first English author. It would have been surprising in the fourteenth century for anyone t...
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Biography EssayPerhaps we must first realize what a curious phenomenon it is that Geoffrey Chaucer became the first English author. It would have been surprising in the fourteenth century for anyone t...
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Chaucer begins the Prologue with a beautiful announcement of spring. This introduction is the voice of the Poet, polished, elegant, and finished. He tells us that just as Nature has a predictable co...
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Chaucer has written great novels in the past years. One of his great works is the
Canterbury Tales. Chaucer has used a lot of satirical devices to describe the pilgrims in
the Prologue and the Tal...
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We feel Chaucer 's childhood relates a lot towards the development of The Canterbury tales. For example, it has been suggested that Chaucer as a child had an stringed instrument called a Psaltery, t...
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Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London around 1342, though the details are vague at best, and lived until 1400. Little is known of his early education, but his works show that he could read French, Latin...
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In a significant number of his tales Chaucer uses the comic genre of fabliaux, which are short, typically anti-intellectual, indecent tales of bourgeois or low life. The plot usually involves an old...
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As a man fascinated with the role of women in during the 14th Century, or most commonly known as the Middle Ages, Chaucer makes conclusive evaluations and remarks concerning how women were viewed duri...
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Notions of power and class can be presented in different ways in literary texts. Some texts seem to pride themselves on the use of such ideas and ideologies, while others somehow subtly absorb the im...
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Fourteenth century England drew witness to many disruptions in time. The 100 Years War, Peasants Revolt, and Black Death are among the many tumultuous events that provide the context for some of the ...
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In the Canterbury Tale, The summoner's Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer pokes fun at religion and Chaucer kinds degrades the church and creates a bad image of the church. Chaucer created the Friar to kind of se...
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
